Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

29.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.